To link to the entire object, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed the entire object, paste this HTML in websiteTo link to this page, paste this link in email, IM or documentTo embed this page, paste this HTML in website

DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE. 5
and may communicate themselves to man under favoring
circumstances. A privy vault will take typhoid fever, have
it badly for a long time, and communicate the disease to
huma.n beings. It is probable that a heap of putrescent
garbage may catch diphtheria in the same way, multiply
its germs and communicate them to unsuspecting children.
rrbere is Ii ttle dOll bt that every seething mass of organic
matter ~s affected wi th yellow fever in the midst of an epi­d
emic of that disease. It is believed by many experienced
physicians that yellow fever is not communicated from
person to person, but is always caught from f'iurro unding
objects.
"So great is thG influence of filth in . these various w'ays
that no epidemic can make .any serioHs head \vay in the
mid-st of clean li ness. One frequented privy va u I t, down
with typhoid fev-e r, is more dangerous than a bou e full of
hurUIil:l patients. A b g t runk fuU of dirty <.:Iothes, sick
with yellow fever, is more to be shunrren than a small hos­p
i.tal ftIll of human v ictims of the di sease. A village dung­hill,
planted with cholera, is mOl'e periloLls than a dozen
-cholera corpses. A foul sewer, swarming with searlatina
germs, may be more dangerolls to a neigh80rhood. than an
infected sc.l:'1Ool-1 ouse.9
'
The mf:l"nagel1).eB t {)f hOlf,Behold offal will he fi rst treated.
Thi-s may he eons:i.dered under three classes, viz : 1. The
fragm.ents of food, scrapB, kitchen grease, moi'st solids or
liquids knovil1 as ~wilZ_ 2. Ashes, d ·ry hQuse and yard
sweepings. 3. Night soil. In ev-ery w-ell-manag.ed hous6~
hold th.e first two dilOuld be kept in separat-e receptacles for
convenient and eC-oll-0t11 ical disposaL The receptacle for
swill shou.ld be a -eovered half-ba1'l'€l, a pork barrel or any
other wate·r·t,jght v-essel. The rece ptacle for Rshes should
be in a pl&ce sufficieHt-ly ,rell'iloved from the dwelling {)r out­bouses
to avoid th.e ch.ances of fia:'e fTom -carele soe s of ser­vants.
The swill should he removed twice a week at l eas t~
and in the case of lw tel s, boarding houses o'r large families
't should be done daily . The dry garbage, a ll denotec1 un·
der tbe .g.eneral term a-shes, should be l·ern.oved week ly from
dwellings, and also from stores and factories.
Bef-GIre ~1e CQme t.o the difficult questiun of the removal

DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE. 5
and may communicate themselves to man under favoring
circumstances. A privy vault will take typhoid fever, have
it badly for a long time, and communicate the disease to
huma.n beings. It is probable that a heap of putrescent
garbage may catch diphtheria in the same way, multiply
its germs and communicate them to unsuspecting children.
rrbere is Ii ttle dOll bt that every seething mass of organic
matter ~s affected wi th yellow fever in the midst of an epi­d
emic of that disease. It is believed by many experienced
physicians that yellow fever is not communicated from
person to person, but is always caught from f'iurro unding
objects.
"So great is thG influence of filth in . these various w'ays
that no epidemic can make .any serioHs head \vay in the
mid-st of clean li ness. One frequented privy va u I t, down
with typhoid fev-e r, is more dangerous than a bou e full of
hurUIil:l patients. A b g t runk fuU of dirty